Coven Keepers (Dark Fae Hollows Book 10) by Thea Atkinson & Rebecca Hamilton & Charmed Legacy & Dark Fae Hollows

Author:Thea Atkinson & Rebecca Hamilton & Charmed Legacy & Dark Fae Hollows [Atkinson, Thea]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Charmed Legacy
Published: 2017-09-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

One involuntary step backward put my feet butted against the outstretched limb of one of the dead brigands. I felt a finger squash beneath my boot and squeezed my eyes closed because I couldn’t bear to think they were hot, living flesh just moments earlier. Whatever I felt for the dead man, it wasn’t pity. I should feel sorry for the man’s death, but I couldn’t. All I could think about was the way those fingers had scrabbled up beneath my shirt and pinched my nipple. I was glad he was dead. This man standing in front of me had killed him. Without remorse. And I was glad of that, too.

I wrapped my arms around my midriff, thinking relief had never felt so damned uncomfortable before. It almost staggered me. My knees had become bags of shadow-root tea complete with its gelatinous threads of mulch that soaked into living tissue and paralyzed it from the inside out. I tried to swallow and found my throat tight.

It was only when I caught sight of the boy’s lumen that I realized what it was Ari had said.

“Not come back?” I said. “What does that mean?

He swayed into the light again, long enough I could make out a wary look to his gaze. It was a question I shouldn’t have had to ask, if I was human. I realized the mistake too late, but he answered as though it was a normal thing to wonder.

“You kill anyone human,” he said with a conspiratorial note cloaking his already-husky voice, “and you start going dark pretty quick. You have to feed your lumen more often just to keep the darkness at bay. But it never quite feels the same. Never quite goes back to what it was.”

There was a long moment when his gaze pinned itself to mine and my stomach squirmed with a peculiar tingling that transmitted all the way to the base of my spine. I caught my breath because I felt as though I was diving into the depths surrounding Avalon. Then he jerked his eyes to the floor at his feet and the moment was gone. I felt something different then. Shame, maybe, but not for anything I had done. More like shame by proxy.

“You sound like you know what it’s like,” I said, trying to get through the thick clot of emotions that were choking off my throat. Too many of them, I realized. Too many damned unfamiliar feelings spilling through my mind, my chest, and into my stomach. It was all making me queasy.

He tugged at Uriel’s curls as though he needed to do something with his hands. The boy stuck a finger in his mouth while he stared at me with a furrowed brow. I got the sense he knew I was different but was trying to decide how. Wondering if Uriel saw me as threat or aid, I stared back at him, working at sending the right words to my tongue that could put him at ease.

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